Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Susan Harrison
- Director: Alexander Mackendrick
- Studio: United Artists
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: NR
- Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
- Release Date: June 27, 1957
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In Alexander Mackendrick's swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.
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